Chartered February 27, 1939

Club 6187 – District 7750

Volume 46, Number 13

Editor: Dave Tavernier: tavernier344@aol.com

Photographer: Tami Burke

Guests

Macey Bosley Student guest Alex Deal Student guest Zach Harrington Student guest Jim Newsome Speaker Marsh Burkhalter lll guest of Richard Pearce Gregory Peck guest of Richard Herring Peter Henze guest of Richard Herring Ronnie Young guest of Bill Taylor Doug Allen guest of Bill Taylor Sen. Lindsey Graham guest of Club Edward Mercer Sen. Graham’s Staff Denise Boult Sen. Graham’s Staff Rene Ann Brown Sen. Graham’s Staff Coile Scarborough pianist John Sanders guest of Joe Lewis J. Spears guest of Joe Lewis Emagrace Colley Blue Springs MO Rotary Rob Novit Aiken Sunrise Rotary

Make-Ups

Shirley Brown EclubOne 9/10, 9/17, 9/24 Gary Willoughby EclubOne 10/1 Laurie Hollick EclubOne 9/17, 9/24, 10/1 Teresa Haas EclubOne 9/24

Rotary Club of Aiken

PO Box 685

Aiken, SC 29802

(803) 648-5676

Monday, 12:30 PM

Newberry Hall

117 Newberry Street, SW

www.aikenrotary.org R. I. President

Sakuji Tanaka District Governor

Kim Gramling Club President

Peggy Ford

President Elect

Joe Shields

Vice President

Barbara Morgan

Past President

J. David Jameson

Secretary/Treasurer

Stanley Smith

Sergeant-at-Arms

Richard Holley

Assistant Governor

Carmen Landy

Board of Directors

Karen Bowles (2013)

Joe Lewis (2013)

Josh Stewart (2013)

Vicki Bukovitz (2014)

Jason Stewart (2014)

John McMichael (2014)

Henry Krippner (2015)

Chuck Munns (2015)

Van Smith (2015)

Sergeants at Arms

Chair Richard Holley

Robert Stack Ross Culligan

Richard Herring Tom Calhoun

Wayland Lamar John McMichael

OCTOBER 15, 2012

PROGRAM LAST WEEK

By Barbara Strack

CLUB SERVICE

4-Way Test This Week - Jason Stewart

4-Way Test Next Week - Barbara Strack

Program This Week— Tom Young

Oct. Greeters - Natalie Fox & Mike McNeill

Oct. Invocation - KT Ruthven

Oct. Student Guest Hosts:

SAHS - Lyn Kenney - Student, Macey Bosley

AHS - Collette Ball - Student, Alex Deal

Aiken Prep– Kay Benitez—Student, Zach Harrington

Our speaker on October 1 was Jim Newsome, President and CEO of the South Carolina Ports Authority. Mr. Newsome’s father worked for the port of Savannah, so he grew up in the business. After earning bachelors and masters degrees

from the University of Tennessee in Transportation and Logistics, he worked in ocean shipping before coming to Charleston in 2009. The strategic priorities for the port are to grow the cargo capacity, develop infrastructure including a new terminal and a deeper harbor, maintain Charleston’s first-in-the-nation ranking for productivity and efficiency, and remain financially sustainable. One in five jobs in SC is dependent on the port, and the economic impact on the Aiken area is $1.86 billion annually. The Ports Authority is building an inland port near Greer with intermodal rail. The inland port will take 100,000 trucks off the roads in South Carolina. Mr. Newsome gave the podium to Sen. Lindsay Graham, who he credits as the resident expert in Congress on harbor deepening and shipping infrastructure. Sen. Graham pledged to work in a bipartisan fashion in the upcoming lame-duck session to deepen the Mississippi River and begin other necessary expansion of the inland waterways.

CLASSIFICATION TALK

By Barbara Strack

Bob Hibbard received a club first—a standing ovation—for his talk on his life and career as a United Methodist minister. Bob’s father was a Methodist minister in Hyannisport, MA, and Bob went to

dancing school there as a child with young Bobby Kennedy. Bob’s wife, Elaine, opines that Bob didn’t exactly master dancing. Straight out of high school, Bob enlisted in the Navy in 1945 and served as a hospital corpsman stateside through the end of World War II. He joined the wave of veterans enrolling at Ohio State, where he and Elaine both graduated in 1951. He then earned a Masters in Divinity from Boston University in 1954. The Hibbards spent their early married life in Great Britain, where Bob held university fellowships at Oxford and Edinburgh. Back in the states, Bob completed a Ph.D at Boston University in 1957, taught theology and philosophy at the college level, and then entered the pastoral ministry back in Ohio. While a minister, he studied with a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and took master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich and Yo Yo Ma. At retirement, the Hibbards moved to Aiken in 1992 to enjoy their 3 children and 6 grandchildren, music, and travel. Bob has been active in Rotary since they moved South. Bob finished his talk with a sermonette, quoting anonymous wisdom: “But the grandest thing, next to the radiance that flows from the Almighty Throne, is the light of a noble and beautiful life, wrapping itself in benediction around the destinies of men, and finding its home in the bosom of the everlasting God.”

Birthdays 10/18 Joe Shields

Wedding Anniversaries 10/17 Brian & Lisa Bernard 10/20 Fred Kelsven & Ann Reinhard

Club Member Anniversaries 10/21 Herb Mattocks (1996)

Program Today

Amy Ryberg Doyle “Where the Rubber Meets the Road”

Changing the way Greenville designs its neighborhoods and its city of the future.

Classification Talk Grant Wiseman

Future Programs October 22 Owen Clary “Galapagos Revisited with Vest & Hat” October 29 Mayor Fred Cavanaugh, “The State of the City” November 5 Rich Waugh, PDG “Rotary Foundation

This issue proofed by Jay Brooks & Natalie Fox

REMEMBER TO PICK UP YOUR

NOMINATION FORM

Members pick up your nomination form for Club

leadership positions for 2013 from the Sergeant –at-

Arms table beginning TODAY. All candidates must be

submitted using this form prior to close of our Club

meeting on October 29th.

TOMORROW IS DICTIONARY DAY

See Geoffrey Magrath for help details

OWEN CLARY’S CART CHALLENGE

By Stan Smith

Owen Clary donated $100 to the CART

fund in July and committed to donate

an additional $10 for each club

member who followed his lead during

the first quarter. His challenge was a

tremendous success and resulted in

23 special donations ranging from $50

to $1000 and totaling $3290. Many thanks to Owen for

the challenge and to those of you who responded. Likely

all of us have felt the impact of Alzheimer’s on family or

friends and in some way have already benefited from the

progress of research to date. Keep the donations coming

and remember that CART Fund by-laws require that 100%

funds donated go to research.

CART FUND

FOR SEPTEMBER

$1,160.50 LIZ STEWART CLOSES OUT CART

MATCH WITH $1,OOO DONATION

October 1st was the last

day for making donations

in the Owen Clary CART

Challenge and it was

closed out with a BANG!

Liz Stewart citing her

family difficulties with the disease, made a

$1,000 donation to the fund. Thank you so much

for your generosity and support of the Club’s

CART effort, Liz.

SENATOR GRAHAM VISITS CLUB

Our Club had the

honor of a visit from

our U.S. Senator,

Lindsey Graham.

Senator Graham’s

comments centered

on the closing of

waste tanks at the SRS and the accomplishments

there in the area of safety and efficiency. He

said that it was through community support that

helped him to be

successful in the U.S.

Senate in getting the

waste tanks closed.

He also made

comments about

deepening our ports,

and the impending controversy over the

approval of a federal budget. The Senator was

in town to officiate at a ceremony at the SRS.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

TEN YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 2002 The three Aiken Clubs (now only two)

were collaborating on the dictionary project to see that every child in the third grade in the Aiken County schools had a dictionary to take home with them. As usual we were meeting on a Saturday morning in Steve Black's Screen Print factory to complete the project. We were attaching a copy of the four way test inside each book. (Now ten years later we are continuing this worthwhile project). OUR PAST - FROM "THE GEAR" OCTOBER 1992 In October as usual we were meeting at the Albert George Memorial Park at the Vocational Rehab Center for our annual Bar-b-que there. Our Club had established and developed the park in 1984 in memory of Charter member and long time Rotarian, Albert George. The park was built on the site of the old George family farm. We honored at those meeting outstanding graduates of the Voc rehab program. HISTORICAL NOTES AND FACTS Thirty years ago in our "Gear" several Rotarians were mentioned. (You may or may not recall some of these old Rotarian names who were active in our Club then {and perhaps now}). Names like: Charlie Hubbard, McDonald Law, Bob Lominick, Raleigh Daniel, Malcolm Dailey, Don Bowen, Jim Satcher, Ken French, Tom Cofer, Jim Lambright, Dan Bacot, Bill Howell, Bob Kenney, and Gary Anderson. The question was asked in the 1982 "Gear": Are you a RINO? (Rotarian In Name Only)!